Because I wrote some fightin’ words against Australia yesterday, here’s a Meet the Sponsors interview and giveaway JUST for my friends down under. (Is using that Northern-hemisphere-centric cliché worse than saying the U.S. is just as awesome in the hand-screenprinted fabric department?) Selkie’s Stash owner Melinda Smith is offering a a $20 gift voucher to [...]
Saffron Craig‘s next fabric collection, expected to be available for retail sale next month, is called Imaginary Flowers. So cool and Scandinavian-modern, yet very Saffron with the purple/yellow combo! Read her blog post to learn more about it, and to hear a harrowing tale about being a fabric manufacturer. By the way, she’s offering free [...]
Australian designer Pippijoe has just introduced a gorgeous new hand-screenprinted fabric print, Elka. Elka in the Storm colorway, above, is currently available in her Etsy shop. It’s printed on a hemp/organic cotton blend that is suitable for light home decor items and clothing. Elka also comes in black on hemp/cotton blend and 100% upholstery-weight hemp, [...]
One of the coolest surprised of Fall Quilt Market for me was sitting down at the Lecien schoolhouse session and learning that Sarah Fielke, the co-author of the amazing quilt books Material Obsession and Material Obsession 2 and creative director of the Australian sewing supersite SEWN was one of the speakers, and was there to [...]
Saffron Craig’s latest collection of quilting/craft-weight cotton fabric is called Magical Lands, inspired by the Australian landscape. Her press release provided a rundown of the prints — Love it! Everyone should do that! — so if you don’t mind I’m just going to copy n’ paste: · Magical Lands: a texturised landscape of little rounded [...]
Australia’s Ink & Spindle have introduced a wonderful new hand screenprinted organic cotton jersey range, which includes their first kid-centric designs. They’ve also just announced some new designs and colorways for their wovens — pay a visit to their blog or shop to see!
Australian designer Saffron Craig recently introduced her latest self-produced range of fabrics, Bird Tree. It’s a sweet, modern collection in striking purple and chartreuse. These and past prints can be purchased directly from the Saffron Craig website, or throughout Australia and the world through your favorite brick-and-mortar and online retailers.
In addition to a range of textiles, homeware, and accessories (those rugs just kill me), Melboune-based designer Nicola Cerini also offers fabric by the meter. She further proves that Australia kicks the rest of the world’s butt in small independent textile design. Designs are printed on a wide selection of natural and synthetic basecloths ranging [...]
The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. Reproductions of Pamela Walker’s 1970s fabric designs, including “Elephant Walk” from 1973, are available from sproutdesign in Australia. True to the originals, sproutdesigns’s [...]
Free to Grow 100% organic cotton collection by Nancy Mims (of Mod Green Pod) for Robert Kaufman has a companion collection of organic solids. We’ll be hearing more from Nancy soon! And speaking of organic, the much anticipated Geo Grand by Daisy Janie has started to arrive in the shops. I know what a journey [...]
Joining the ever-growing list of Australian hand-screenprinted fabric designers is FippaFabric near Melbourne. These original designs are printed on a 53″ bamboo-cotton blend with solvent-free colors. I love these modern European folk-inspired designs and hope there’s more to come from this shop.
Australian designer Saffron Craig will be introducing eight new designs this April. Here’s a detail of the first, Elk Landscape. Click over to see more of this complex and layered print. It’s nice to see hand-screenprinted fabrics using more than 1-2 colors! Oops, come to find out that Saffron Craig is now printing overseas, so [...]
Weird — it’s the second day in a row that a Daily Swatch pick has led me to an indie fabric designer from Australia. Today it’s FlowerPress from Sydney, who just introduced her hand-screenprinted rickrack fabric design (above) in strawberry and also an aqua colorway. Right now it’s offered at the introductory price of $10 [...]
Today’s Daily Swatch led me to the Etsy shop of Melissa Bombardiere, aka melbomba, who lives in Sydney, Australia. She offers her own fabric designs hand-screenprinted on a linen/cotton blend. 20″ x 20″ cuts range from $16.50-$18.50 US, yardage is available, as are mix packs. Add another amazing designer to the Australian Fabric Mafia.
Jayne Stewardson’s Butter Creative offers “quirky, vintage-inspired fabric prints” in her Etsy shop, featuring storybook-inspired ideas and motifs hand-screenprinted onto mid-weight cotton in her studio in Melbourne, Australia. Above is depicted a windy day in her Quirky Trees and Birds print, and below is a retro inspired flower print. That rake up there just kills [...]
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